Tag: porridge

This porridge is super nice and its our Malay traditional porridge that are usually cooked and served almost everyday during Ramadhan (fasting month) and special occasion. Today I cooked this porridge in conjunction with our Prophet’s s.a.w. birthday.

I actually had this recipe for more than 8 years ago yet only today I tried it out. The recipe was given to us by an elderly uncle who works at the orphanage in KL. We met and somehow as we chat, he offered to share with us this recipe.

Regarding the visit, a few of our halaqah sisters had planned the 3 days 2 nights to KL to visit the orphanage. This was many many years ago but the memory still lingers in me cos it was so memorable and an eye-opener. I still have a few pictures of our time together 😉

Anyway, back to the recipe, the original recipe given to us was for 10 kg of rice. Too much for a family, so what I did was to cut down the amount to suit my family. Simple to make yet very very tasty.

Since I like to have lentils and cashew nuts in my porridge, I added these though this two ingredients are not in the original recipe.

Tried this recipe a few days ago. What motivates me to try it out was after I watched the Korean drama Angel Eyes. The way the actress ate the porridge looks to yummylicious so I thought of trying it out.

The pumpkin porridge turned out to be a sweet type of porridge. Pumpkin are known for their nutritious values but I have to say I prefer my porridge savoury so after trying out the pumpkin porridge I did not find it quite to my taste.

Here is the recipe and I chose not to blend the porridge so mine was less refine.

Rinse the rice and soak in a big bowl for about an hour or more.
Slice the pumpkin and boil them with 4 cup of water. Once soften, puree with a blender. Do not discard the broth.
Then drain the rice and blend before combining them together with the pureed pumpkin and its broth over medium heat.
Keep stirring, add more water if its too thick. Add sugars and salt to taste.
Serve with some chopped nuts or pumpkins seeds.

As a wife and mother, sometimes I really have no idea what to cook for the family, and when this happen, I would just cook porridge. Below is one of the porridge I would cook, simple yet tasty and everyone likes porridge so why not! 😀